Love is ubiquitous, if complicated.

We've put together this quirky, delightful collection in recognition that we're all moved by somethings or someones in different ways. Whether the results are tragic or funny, bittersweet or whimsical, stern or tender, they cast new light onto the infinite varieties and subtlest nuances of that unique, incomparable phenomenon we call love.

Helen Harrison will leave you perusing your options more closely with Men-U, while Shannon Fitts shares her full-frontal love affair with the Big Apple in NYC + Me. Come along as our contributors traverse the figurative seasons of love with grace, humor, irony and maybe a dash of exasperation.